Donna Tartt

"The very act of writing it down made her realize how easy it would be to forget, how important it would be from now on to put everything, everything, down on paper."

- Donna Tartt

"Are you always up this early?' I asked him.'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable."

- Donna Tartt

"I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe."

- Donna Tartt